Copying paths from Illustrator bug

Glyphs
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Hi, I’ve noticed that when I draw a path in Illustrator and then copy it to Glyphs, it resizes automatically, I think, according to the height of the path.

So, if I copy a tall drawing, it will be resized to a smaller size, and if I copy a wide drawing, it will be resized to a larger size.

I’ll show you an example of 2 identical boxes in Illustrator. They are solid color with an opacity of 70% and no stroke.

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Now when I copy the tall box to Glyphs, this happens…

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Good ..

Now watch, I’ll copy the other box see what happens..

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Although they have the same size, but it has been strangely changed a deferent ratio size…

Best regards,

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Can you run this line in the macro panel and post the result:

print(Glyphs.defaults["GSScalePasteToUPM"])
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The result is: None

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can you send me the .ai file. What version of Illustrator do you have? And can you check the clipboard settings in Illustrator?

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Copying paths from Illustrator bug.ai.zip (186.7 KB)

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Illustrator uses different formats when putting stuff in the clipboard (e.g. pdf and svg).

Your shapes have a 70% opacity. That makes Illustrator renders the shapes as images in the pdf. Glyphs doesn’t read that and falls back to svg. But the svg is always scaled that the its bounds are as high as the UPM (you can control that by adding a rect around your drawing). The SVG importer should probably check the “GSScalePasteToUPM” setting, too.

So, if you make the shapes fully black (and remove the outline), it will work as expected.